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The Times Square Hustler choose

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[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 55: We call them the nickel and dime club cause they be a lot of lonely old gay guys who are on welfare that come here and pick up guys.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 39: Oak is a badass nigger who looks like a fuckin’ oak tree.
at bad-ass nigger, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 24: Almost all the stores employ ‘barkers’ or ‘steerers’.
at barker, n.1
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 48: When I came out [...] I used to wear the spike heels, the dress, the wig: the whole bit.
at whole bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 41: Pretty Boy Tony is a young African American.
at pretty-boy, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 122: It is common to see people sleeping in corners [...] in numerous cardboard boxes, or ‘cardboard condominiums’.
at cardboard city, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 48: Every once in a while, I’ll see a girl I want and it’s chill.
at chill, adj.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 55: You always gotta be clockin’ [...] the man to make sure he ain’t Five-0.
at clock, v.1
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 48: When I came out, I came all the way out [...] I used to wear the spike heels, the dress, the wig.
at come out, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 82: The processing also allows for additional adulterants to be added. Ingredients such as lidocaine or benzocaine, known as ‘comeback’ look and taste like cocaine but produce no high.
at comeback, n.2
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 89: Crack-heads, man, they be scandalizin’ theyself chasin’ the pipe.
at crack head (n.) under crack, n.7
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 68: They play the sometimes dangerous game of ‘cutting,’ or insulting each other.
at cut, v.5
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 40: [of a gay man] He has turned tricks, danced in the clubs, ‘worked sugar daddies’ for money, clothes, and housing.
at sugar daddy, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 54: I never sucked a dick.
at suck dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 99: Penetrating the rectum with the hand (known as ‘fisting’).
at fisting, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 29: ‘God squatters’ often gather just behind [...] against the parking lot fence. This group is made up of a variety of individuals, usually all from the same Christian congregation, who obtain a permit to carry a religious message to the people of 42nd Street.
at God squad (n.) under God, n.1
[US] (con. 1930s) R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 20: Theaters then began showing pornographic films, commonly called ‘grind flicks,’ because of the number of times a movie could be shown in the course of a day.
at grind house, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 55: They suck on your knob for a little bit.
at knob, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 44: I was already dealing drugs and doin’ armed robberies. My speciality was knockin’ off other drug spots.
at knock off, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 53: The terminal is known among hustlers and clients as the ‘Meat Rack’.
at meat rack, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 82: Users quickly develop an insatiable appetite for crack, and three-to-four day binges or ‘missions’ [...] become common.
at mission, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 85: They be ragged out and shit, starvin’, gettin’ sick.
at ragged out, adj.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 59: He’s alright, he’s cool people.
at people, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 42: He claims that bisexuality, or ‘playing for both teams’ does not interest him.
at play for both teams (v.) under play, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 89: Crack-heads, man, they be scandalizin’ theyself chasin’ the pipe. I don’t do that.
at scandalize, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 57: Some days [...] I get skunked and nobody comes around.
at skunk, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 39: Although Raul has fewer clients, almost all are ‘steadies’.
at steady, n.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 42: He is currently trying to make up his mind which way he would like to ‘swing.’ He claims bisexuality [...] does not interest him.
at swing, v.
[US] R.P. McNamara Times Square Hustler 44: They’re goin’ to kill you one way or the other, so you might as well go out like a trooper.
at trooper, n.1
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